Nahum Tevet (Hebrew: נחום טבת) (Born 1946, Kibbutz Mesilot, Mandatory Palestine) is one of the leading Israeli artists whose work was among the earliest to respond to the minimalist canon by introducing into his installations everyday domestic objects, metaphors and images like in: Corner (1973-4) and Arrangements of Six Units.

[1] Starting the 1980's Tevet’s work turned reductivism upside-down by using geometrical-abstract vocabulary in large-scale intricate labyrinth-like complex sculptures and installations.

In 1965 he was drafted to the army and after 3 years of obligatory service he returned to his home in the Kibbutz where he set an art studio and worked as a gardener.

After the Yom Kippur War in 1973 the young family moved from the Kibbutz to Petah Tikva, a city near Tel Aviv, where they lived for few years.

By the summer 2000 Tevet was asked to become head of the Advance studies program and was leading the opening of the Bezalel Branch of Salame Street in Tel Aviv.

[11] In the 1990s a retrospective was held In 2006 the Israel Museum, Jerusalem mounted  Nahum Tevet Works  1993-2006 curated by Sarit Shapira Toward the late 1970, After his solo show at the Israel Museum Jerusalem, He started to develop his Drawing installations For Given Rooms, where similar drawings appeared more than once, as if they were mirroring on opposite walls or in a nearby room.

Reflections, repetitions and mirroring, in these dynamic sculptures there is a gradual development in complexity which remain, as of today, one of the main characteristics of his work.

The British critic -philosopher Michael Newman wrote about the painting Lessons in 1986: "…We haven't simply left the "Master narratives" behind, but rather continued it in the form "the End of the master narrative"… these speculations are not irrelevant aside, but rather a precondition for understanding the exemplary nature of Tevet sculptures and the reason why it is among the most important art being made today….”[12] There were few "rules" to the large rooms floor installations Nahum Tevet created between 1993-2006: In these works, Tevet took away the highly painterly surface, which was so present in the former Painting Lessons Series, and created instead furniture's like modules which components were painted in the same way a housepainter would coat his furniture.

[5] The complete group of room's installations was the subject of a large exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem:  "Nahum Tevet-Works, 1993-2006" curated by Sarit Shapira.